Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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